Hospital Sketches BOM

Ever since I learned to quilt ten years ago in Ireland. Baltimore style album quilt has been in my to-do list. So when Barbara Brackman wrote in her Civil War Quilts about free applique quilt along, I wanted to start right away.
I do not like to repeate myself doing lots of similar quilts, so this is probably only Baltimore style quilt I will ever do. I wanted first to do traditional red and green quilt, but I don't have many red fabrics in my stash so it turned to be blue and green on white background.

I changed original version a bit, but it's common design in Baltimore Album quilts. I added some pink so it's not only blues and greens. Tomorrow will be time for the next block and I will start it right away....

Riikka

Illusion

Finally I have one quilt finished. Illusion from Judy Hopkins' book Triangle-free Quilts.

Riikka

Jen Kingwell's mystery

Winter in Finland is cold and feels long. This year we have lots of snow even in South Finland wich is nice. Snow makes everything much lighter and our short daylight  bearable. But as nice as snow is, it washes all colours away. It doesn’t matter is day or night everything is either white or dark. 

So when I  got my new Quiltmania and saw Jen Kingwell’s colourful mystery quilt Marshall, I knew I wanted to start it right away.  

In my mind I saw bright colours and different prints, but this mystery had its own plans: romantic flowers, pastel stripes and neutral gingham. But I love it. The only problem is long wait for the next part. Next Quiltmania issue is due sometime in March. 

Riikka